The Iraq War remains highly controversial, but in all the uncertainty about weapons of mass destruction, the use and misuse of intelligence, it remains an awesome military and political event and a formidable exercise in American power aided by the British army. Throughout the war and beyond it, John Keegan's analysis proved more accurate than any other commentator's, and now he brings his unrivalled knowledge of military history to bear on the war, its conduct and consequences. Written with special access to new sources of information, this book is the most authoritative and challenging account of a war which could both set the pattern for military conflicts in the 21st century and significantly affect the world political order.

John Keegan is the Defence Editor of theDaily Telegraphand Britain's foremost military historian. The Reith Lecturer in 1998, he is the author of many bestselling books includingThe Face of Battle,Six Armies in Normandy, Battle at Sea, The Second World War, A History of Warfare(awarded the Duff Cooper Prize),Warpaths, The Battle for History, The First World War, and most recently,Intelligence in War. For many years John Keegan was the Senior Lecturer in Military History at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and he has been a Fellow of Princeton University and Delmas Distinguished Professor of History at Vassar. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He received the OBE in the Gulf War honours list, and was knighted in the Millennium honours list in 1999. John Keegan died in August 2012.

The war against Saddam Hussein, described and analysed by our foremost military historian.